Inspiration for your Easter weekend

Can you believe Easter is this coming Sunday? I don’t know if it is because Easter is so much later than last year, but I can say I’m not very prepared. Finally I am starting my holiday focus. Will you be hosting friends and family for dinner? We are expecting about 10 for an Easter brunch after we attend sunrise services at church.

Easter table with fragrant flowers

Today’s post is inspiration for your Easter weekend~ from easy Easter DIYs to family traditions at the table. If your children are on spring break, some of these ideas would be fun to keep them busy and entertained.

Making Easter Nests~a fun DIY project

The joy of spring brings new nests all over our property. Instead of using real nests (not sure how sanitary that would be at the dinner table), I make faux nests. Back in 2020, I use Royal Worcester soup bowls at my Easter dinner table. However, the table is lacking something. So I whip up these cute nests using items I readily have on hand.

Faux nests for the Easter dinner table

Since I have never made these before, it is fun to experiment and try something new. The supplies are simple~shredded paper (from our paper shredder but you can use whatever you have), Mod Podge, disposable styrofoam bowls, a few colors of spray paint, glue and moss.

Don’t they look so pretty on the Easter table?

Easter table 2020

To see the entire post on making DIY Easter nests, click here.

Decoupage Easter Eggs

Last week, I shared an easy DIY on how to make these decoupage Easter eggs with your children or grandchildren. All you need are neutral colored eggs~either plastic, wooden or actual eggs, Mod Podge, paper napkins, and a paint brush. If you are using real eggs, you can find instructions on how to do this here.

Decoupage Easter eggs

What’s nice about these decoupage eggs, is that they keep from year to year and you can use them in a multitude of ways. This sweet lady bunny has a space for an egg on her yellow coat.

One of my favorite Easter items

Or in a basket of straw as an Easter/Spring decoration or part of someone’s Easter basket.

Easter display

Of course, you can use your decoupage eggs at your Easter dinner table too!

A Spring table

Think of all the possibilities depending on the color and style of your napkin! To see the complete post on How to Decoupage Easter eggs, click here.

Easter Table Ideas

If you haven’t starting setting your table for Easter, here is a plethora of ideas from centerpieces to place cards. Today I will be going through the Easter boxes in the garage to come up with a theme for our table this Sunday. It’s a bit like Christmas because I seem to forget year to year what I have collected over time. We hope to set a table outdoors (weather providing) in the palm orchard, like we have the last few years.

Easter outside 2023

Many of my Easter pieces come with wonderful memories. My dear friend, Gwen, gave me these porcelain lamb napkin rings over 30 years ago.

Sweet napkin ring

If you love bunnies, my dear friend, Chloe from Celebrate and Decorate has two sweet inspirational table settings with these furry friends. You can see it here.

Peter Rabbit table scape from Celebrate and Decorate

The Easter menu

Since we will be having a brunch, it will be easy to serve a homemade quiche (loaded with spinach and goat cheese), both green and fruit salad, hot cross buns and perhaps a smoked ham (husband is figuring that out).

Spinach and goat cheese quiches

The hot cross buns are so tasty, however, I am still struggling with getting the crosses correct. Here’s the recipe from Sally’s Baking Recipes, as I have good luck with her content. The crosses are made with a flour/water concoction and orange icing is added after baking.

Hot cross buns before putting in the oven

The annual family dessert is a lamb cake. Easter lamb cake (known as agnuszek or baranek wielkanocny in Polish) is a traditional Eastern European dessert. As a child, I looked forward to my mother making this for Easter as it signaled the beginning of Spring.

To read more about this cake, check out the original post here.

Traditional Easter cake

Please share what you are doing for Easter and any family traditions you enjoy. If you do not celebrate Easter, then wishing a way to rejoice the beautiful Spring weather.

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6 Comments

  1. Hi Mary,
    I’m so taken back with your talents. The Lady Bunny in with your decoupage egg is fabulous.
    Love the lamb napkin rings that Gwen gifted you. Gifts like this mean so much, the memories run deep don’t they?
    Chloe’s Peter the rabbit theme is wonderful.
    The spinach goat cheese quiches, cross buns and the lamb cake is all so wonderful.
    YOU entertain in such an extraordinary way. What a beautiful gift you have.

  2. Mary
    Happy Easter Weekend! I adore those lamb napkin rings. I was scrolling back for a link and was disappointed that there wasn’t one. You are blessed with so many treasures. Enjoy your holiday.

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  4. We seem to be in the same basket…Easter trunk down from loft…usually do a tree with flower stems…but, late this year…back to the drawing board…where’s that quiche recipe…& coconut cake…franki

    1. Franki, the recipe for the lamb cake sometimes changes year to year, but I will post the recipe included in the original box. A pound cake consistency works the best. The quiche recipe is more of a non-recipe as it changes each time I make it. But let me see if I can tighten it up and post it. It’s mostly sautéed spinach, eggs and lots of goat cheese.

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